Maps of Segregated Cities

Business Insider (from Australia) has an interesting series of maps depicting the high degree of racial segregation in many major U.S. cities.  They have 21 over there, but I just wanted to highlight a few in particular.  First up: Chicago. 

Chicago has a 75.9 "black-white dissimilarity score," and anything higher than a 60 is considered highly segregated.  The blue dots on this map are where the black people live, and the red are white people, and the orange is hispanic people.  Green is Asian.  When my wife, Robyn, and I first moved to Chicago in 2007, we lived in Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago is.  Hyde Park is that red blob surrounded by the blue on the South Side.  So this was one of the major steps in my development of beginning to think about race.  Later, we moved to Roscoe Village, which is on the North Side, kind of right where the red blurs in with the orange, where Mexican and Puerto Rican neighborhoods are being gentrified by White folks.  Like us.

This link takes you to a map of the United States.  See if you can find Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland on the map.  It's not hard.

Here's New York City, which has a black-white dissimilarity score of 79.1, higher than Chicago:

I'm surprised that New York is actually more segregated than Chicago.  You can easily see the parts of Brooklyn and The Bronx where the black people live, and that Manhattan is pretty much White-only these days.  And Harlem keeps getting moved further and further uptown.  

Here's Detroit, #1 in segregation at 79.6:

I have never been to Detroit.  But there is very clearly a literal dividing line between the White neighborhoods (the suburbs) and the Black, the city of Detroit: Eight Mile Road.  

So, my question is: Why do we pay for schools using local property taxes?

Other cities:

San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley

Boston 

Seattle 

Portland, OR is very white

New Orleans, 2010

St. Louis & East St. Louis

Portsmouth, NH: No race problems here!

Savannah, GA

Damn.  I was hoping to find my town of Champaign, IL.  Seriously, they have Portsmouth and Boise, ID but not Champaign??  

Here's some of the relevant info that I wanted: The Champaign-Urbana metro area as of 2010 was 74.3% White, 10.6% Black, and 4.8% Hispanic.  But the Champaign school district student population as of 2012 is 41.2% White, 34.9% Black, and 8.8% Hispanic.  Why is that??? 

Why do we pay for schools with local property taxes? 

Post-Script: I found it!